Annie whole life – Page 3

byanniemd007
Aug 02,22
abandonment, Annie whole life, childhood trauma, Grief, Love, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, neglect, PTSD

Jack-In-the-Crack 🖤

I don’t know where to begin. Definitely not in Times New Roman. Not Arial. Maybe Book Antiqua. For sure not Comic Sans. I have always written things. My thoughts, my memories, my joy, my sorrow. You name it. Just not term papers. Never quite lived up to my “academic potential”…

byanniemd007
Jul 31,22
Annie whole life, Babies, Grief, High Risk Maternity, Labor & Delivery, Loss, Miscarriage, Motherhood, Nurse

Lo Siento, Mama

It gets me every time. Thankfully, it usually waits until I get home. I love my job. But sometimes, it’s fucking hard. And not always in a stressful, too busy, or emergent way. Sometimes it’s hard to be part of the team that takes care of the aftermath. The nothing…

byanniemd007
Jul 27,22
abandonment, Annie whole life, childhood trauma, First apartment, Grief, Love, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, neglect

Too Much and Not Enough 🖤

I had my own apartment at age 15. My mother had fallen in love, again. This one would become her 3rd husband. She was good at falling in love. There would be two more husbands after that one. It was the staying that she had trouble with… By the time…

byanniemd007
Jul 25,22
Annie whole life, Love, Married Life, Middle Aged Women

Crazy Love

This might be one of my favorite things, this strip. It’s young, crazy love. And fun. So much fun. No social media then, in the bygone days. No kids, either. I kissed Robbie for the first time when I was 14 years old. He wasn’t technically my boyfriend until I…

25 Random Things About Me

1. All I ever wanted to be when I “grew up” was a mommy.2. I went to 15 different schools from Kindergarten to 12th grade.3. I had my own apartment at age 15, Junior year of highschool.4. I got married in a movie theatre.5. I met Robbie behind Brookfield, at…

byanniemd007
Jun 20,22
Annie whole life, graduation, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood

Tempest in a Teacup

Where do I start? What do I share? What do I keep to myself, locked in my heart and my head? There is so much… Last week was a whirlwind. A tempest in teacup. I have been just floating and riding the waves, not yet capsized. A lot of this…

byanniemd007
May 30,22
Anesthesia, Annie whole life, High Risk Maternity, Labor & Delivery, Middle Aged Women, Mommy Makeover, Motherhood

8 Liters

Post Vegas Girls’s Trip and work weekend wrap up. This might be long. I want to start by saying that I work with some badass bitches. And every once in awhile, I have to float to L&D where the wild things are. Well, on Friday night it was bat shit…

byanniemd007
May 18,22
Annie whole life, Middle Aged Women, Mommy Makeover, Motherhood

Proud of My Gawd Damn Self

Today I celebrated something significant to me. It was the CKM Humanities and International Studies Program’s Senior BBQ, Class of 2022. And I am so very proud of my daughter. My kids. Both of them are HISP graduates. Survivors. Academic warriors. Hard workers. Solid writers. Smart cookies. But here is…

byanniemd007
May 15,22
Annie whole life, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, Senior Ball

All the lasts…

Last one. Forever. C. K. McClatchy High School Senior Ball 2022 I hope they know these days don’t come again and I hope they have the most fun they have ever had. I hope they know that it has been the best part of my life watching them all grow…

byanniemd007
May 08,22
Annie whole life, Grief, Middle Aged Women, Mommy Makeover, Motherhood

Sidewalk Chalk and Motherhood

All I ever wanted to be was a mama. A mama like my own who taught me to love with my whole heart. Like my friends’ moms whose homes I wished I lived in, with art projects and homemade pesto and string cheese and secret staircases. Like the moms that…